Music Reviews
Animal Collective - I Remember Learning How To Dive (Song)
I Remember Learning How To Dive is a song by Animal Collective and is the final track to appear on their 2005 EP, Prospect Hummer. Opening up with an incredibly simple percussive pattern, Bunyan rejoins the recording and contributes the vocals to the track with a multi-layered vocal delivery. …
Ten Years After, I’m Going Home, music
Ten Years After, I’m Coming Home, released in 1996, compilation.
A band that defintelt stands the test of time is Ten Years After. Alvin Lee and company could really belt out the jams. It’s sad that a lot of teenagers into heavier music today don’t realize how important the …
Don’t Turn The Lights On - Chromeo
I am a huge fan of music that has a distinct eighties vibe to it, not least of which music actually made in the eighties. There is just something about the use of cheesy synths and rhythm inspired pop base lines that just keeps me listening without question. For …
Weezer - Memories (Song)
Memories is a song by Weezer which appears on their album Hurley. Oddly, the song opens up with an abstract sounding intro before going into the rest of the track which carries the very characteristic Weezer power pop sound. The intro personally seemed a bit disjointed from the rest …
Put Up or Shut Up Album
Recently I listened to All Time Low’s older album Put Up or Shut Up and I was really blown away by how their old music never ceases to impress me. I think that it is truly impressive that at such an immature point in their careers, …
The band Cannibal Corpse
The metal band Cannibal Corpse is a group of sick musicians and I mean sick in a real good way. I don’t think these guys are talented when it comes to making music but these guys have voices like you wouldn’t believe when it comes to belting out brutal …
Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O’ Mine
Sweet Child O’ Mine is a song written by Axl Rose and performed by his band, the legendary Guns ‘N’ Roses.
Sweet Child O’ Mine is one of my all time favorite songs. I currently have the Guns N Roses greatest hits album in my gym and pretty much …
Iowa, 2001 Album by Slipknot
Iowa is a great metal album. This album firmly establishes what metal music should be like. And I find it truly amazing how such a great metal album came out exactly at the right time, from the point of view of the state of the music industry. Due to …
Randy Crawford (musician)
I was surprised that I had never heard of the apparently popular R&B singer Randy Crawford until my parents were given one of her CDs a few years ago by a friend of my family. This was because I am also sure that I have never heard any of …
Kid Cudi - Ashin’ Kusher (Song)
Ashin’ Kusher is a song by Kid Cudi which appears on his second album Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager. Opening up with an interesting electronic drum rhythm, Kid Cudi enters with the first verse of the track pretty quickly with a melody that I …
Temples of Boom, 1995 Album by Cypress Hill
When I got hold of this album I honesty did not expect to be that good. It so happened that I first got acquainted with Cypress Hill albums released in 1999 and 2000, and only then moved on to their earlier releases. And, the early releases were rather good, …
picture to burn
Picture to burn by Taylor Swift is a song about how a girl is upset and is going to burn the picture of her ex boyfriend. I understand what the song means on so many levels because there are some people’s pictures I still have, I’ve thought of burning …
Nine Inch Nails - Capital G (Song)
Capital G is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album Year Zero. The track opens up with a heavy drum and synthesizer rhythm before Reznor comes in with the vocals of the track which I’ve always liked. Sometime I’ve had a problem with Year Zero …
Animal Collective - #1 (Song)
#1 is a song by Animal Collective and is the sixth track to appear on their record Strawberry Jam. Opening up with an incredibly hypnotizing start, the vocals join the track after a bit of time has passed with a repeating vocal phrase which continues to reinforce the hypnotizing …
Feels Like Home by Norah Jones
Norah Jones darted quickly in about two years, beginning from an unknown club she became very famous. This new artist to get almost all the awards. Her voice produces 8 million USD in sales of her albums, she also won a Grammy in 2001. Jones started her album entitled …
Scars On Broadway - Serious (Song)
Serious is the opening song of Scars On Broadway’s self-titled debut record. As this being the first record, some fans were not sure what to expect from Daron Malakian, whether he’d go with the sound that he had in System Of A Down or whether he’d go in a …
Here I Am by Leona Lewis
I have heard from the radio that Leona Lewis is a winner of a show in Europe, I think in United Kingdom. If I am not mistaked, she won that ‘X-Factor’ show. After making that hit song ‘Bleeding Love’, I think the song ‘Here I Am’ as another great …
Steve Vai Morley wah pedal 2
The Steve Vai Morley wah 2 is the efficient pedal for adding those wah effects that Vai the virtuoso himself used on his records as well.This wah has two selectable footswitches the Bad Horsie mode and the counter mode, for your own wah tone that you can create with …
Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
Overview - Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, the debut album by Jefferson Airplane, is an album that really isn’t all that similar to their later work, although this does happen quite a bit with debut albums. If you’re associating Jefferson Airplane with psychedelic rock, which isn’t a problem, then this …
Must Be Doing Something Right by Billy Currington
This is a song about a man making a woman happy. In our lives today, sometimes it is hard to tell what a woman really wants, especially in a relationship. When a man starts a relationship with a woman, he is basically taking a stab in the dark when …
Katy Perry - I kissed a girl
Katy perry is a new comer in music industry but I think her song is good and most people like it. This song, I kissed a girl is a funny song. The genre of this song is pop. The lyrics is tell about the girl who kissed a girl …
Kings of Leon
I first heard about Kings of Leon right around when they came on the scene which, I believe, was back in 2005. The first video I saw of theirs was “Four Kicks”. I liked the song’s kind of punchy, in your face sound, and the video was all around …
Death Cab For Cutie
This is one of the best albums put out my the band Death Cab For Cutie. We Have The Facts and We’re Voting Yes is a fantastic album, filled with indie rock like music that will get you singing. I recieved this album as a gift from a friend …
Pantera Far Beyond Driven
This album was released in 1994 on East west records and produced by Terry Date. The album features a controversial image of a man being drilled into his forehead, the album’s original artwork depicted a person being drilled in the anus and had to be changed to the drillbit …
Sway by Pussycat Dolls
The original singer of the song Sway was a female. That I know, but I am not quite sure of the original singer’s name or anything. I know that Michael Buble had make a cover version of this song as well and then on the Pussycat Dolls.
If you …
Radiohead - The Bends (Song)
The Bends is a song by Radiohead which appears on their second album of the same name. Opening up with a fairly heavy guitar riff, the song immediately starts out with a rhythm I enjoy and a full and healthy rock sound. Yorke can be heard singing a few …
Tool - Aenima (Song)
Aenima is the title track for a record released by Tool. The track starts off with a heavy sounding guitar rhythm which leads into a very nice and heavy sounding rhythm once the bass and drums come in. The verse of the song is actually led by a bass …
Metallica - Slither (Song)
Slither is a song by Metallica which appears on their album Reload, the second half of their doubl ealbum, Load/Reload. The song opens up with an extended powerchord with Hetfield beginning the vocals very early singing with some kind of effect on his voice in a tone that I …
E.T. by Katy Perry featuring Kanye West Music Video
I have to be honest. I was not a big fan of Katy Perry’s newest music video for E.T. featuring Kanye West. My problem with this music video is that it falls into the trap that a lot of music videos fall into these days. It is way too …
Bob Dylan - Going, Going, Gone (Song)
Going, Going, Gone is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album Planet Waves. Planet Waves opens up with some guitar chords along with a lead guitar which plays a slight lead, both of these combine to give a pretty melancholy tone in my opinion. When …
P.E. 2000 (Spanish Remix): Puff Daddy ft. Hurricane G.
Puff Daddy ft. Hurricane G.
“P.E. 2000 (Spanish Remix)”
Forever
Bad Boy Entertainment
Nope, sorry Puffy, still no cigar. First he gave us the original version of “P.E. 2000″, then a rock remix version which was a tad bit entertaining but not quite, and now we have the most boring version of them …
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (Song)
White Rabbit is a song by Jefferson Airplane which appears on their record Surrealistic Pillow. The song is one of the more well known songs by the band and certainly with good reason. Sometimes tracks can be extremely well known but they just really aren’t that good in reality, …
Pink Floyd - The Gnome (Song)
The Gnome, a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their first record, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, is another song on that album which I would basically describe as just being a very upbeat sounding song in tone and basically filled with lyrics full of nonsense, …
The Grateful Dead - Ripple (Song)
Ripple is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their album American Beauty. Ripple starts off with a very lighthearted rhythm led by an acoustic guitar along with a bass line, I can’t stress how truly lighthearted and just carefree this part truly sounds and it seems …
“What We Saw from the Cheap Seats,” 2012 Album by Regina Spektor
Before purchasing “What We Saw from the Cheap Seats,” my exposure to Regina Spektor had mostly been listening to her songs on YouTube and, later, purchasing them on iTunes. As someone who had only listened to her light and happy songs, I was pleasantly surprised when I put the …
Trans-Siberian Orchestra- The Lost Christmas Eve CD (Music)
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra has been becoming increasingly popular over the years, especially during the holiday season. I recently purchased The Lost Christmas Eve album, which, obviously is a Christmas album. It is hands down the best Christmas CD I have ever heard in my life. It …
Metallica - S&M
Overview - S&M, a collaboration between Metallica and The San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Kamen, is a unique and creative mix of Metallica songs being accompanied by an orchestra. Metallica songs on their own carry an extreme amount of energy and intensity to them, and if you were …
The Beatles - Because (Song)
Because is a track from The Beatles’ penultimate record, Abbey Road. The thing that I always remember about Because is that this is certainly the one track on Abbey Road, or throughout The Beatles’ entire catalogue for that matter, which really demonstrates how well this band were good at …
Animal Collective - La Rapet (Song)
La Rapet is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their debut record Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished. Kicking off with the vocals right away, the first thing I notice is that better production could’ve certainly helped this song because the vocals are fairly hard to make …
Album : Survivor - Survivor (1979)
While Survivor may be known widely as that band who wrote EYE OF THE TIGER and BURNING HEART for the rocky movies, fans of the band like myself know that there is oh so much more to them than those two hits.
This self-titled album arrived in 1979 and …
Love You More - JLS - Single
The fact that JLS were chosen to do the Children In Need Song for 2010 shows how popular they have become. I think it was a lovely type of ballad that they did and another example that they have more than one string to their bow. It’s also easy …
Green Day - Last Night On Earth (Song)
Last Night On Earth is a song by Green Day which appears on their album 21st Century Breakdown. Something I’m going to say about this track is that it’s the most melodic piece of music that I’ve ever heard Green Day do and I think that they just sound …
Eagles of Death Metal - Eagles Goth (song)
“Eagles Goth” is the 11th track on “Death by Sexy”. “Eagles Goth” is by far the shortest song on the entire album. What it lacks in length however, it makes up for in style.
“Eagles Goth starts off with a off key rockabilly riff. The guitar’s aren’t very impressive, the …
Led Zeppelin - Hots On For Nowhere (Song)
Hots On For Nowhere is a song by Led Zeppelin which appears on their album Presence. The song starts off with a lighthearted rhythm played by Page accompanied by Jones and Bonham before Plant comes in with the vocals. I like the flow of the music on this track …
Animal Collective - Campfire Songs (Album)
Campfire Songs is the third studio album by Animal Collective. Comprised of five songs, Campfire Songs is incredibly different than Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished or Danse Manatee, the first two records released by the band. Whereas these two albums relied on experimental songwriting, Campfire Songs is based …
Tool Laterlaus
Tool’s Lateralus is the band’s third studio album released in May of 2001, the artwork and album packaging is really cool and different from most as like most of Tool’s artwork, this features a plastic sleeve, inside the album there is a booklet of plastic pages detailing the human …
Genesis
Genesis is LEGENDARY British band in the progressive rock genre. Originally, I wasn’t too keen on them, but after Phil Collins took over from Peter Gabriel, that is when I became aware of Genesis as a band, and actually began to like them and respect them for what they …
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson CD album is unique. The title of this CD is also Jennifer Hudson. She is such an amazing singer, it’s no wonder that she has won an award before. Her voice is so precious and awesome and I felt sorry for her from the bottom …
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains (song)
“Beneath the Remains” by Sepultura happens to be the opening track for the suitibly named album “Beneath The Remains”. This album was released in 1989 and is hailed by many a staple in thrash metal history. “Beneath The Remains” being the first song of the album, sets the pace …
Maneater
Maneater by Nelly Furtado is a true song for a lot of chicks now days because they make guys fall in love with them left and right and then they make them do what they want. It kind of sickens me even though I have got guy friends that …
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